[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Deprecate draknetcenter+network init scripts after systemd becomes default.

Fri Aug 26 12:45:04 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 26/08/11 11:19 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le jeudi 25 août 2011 à 12:17 +0100, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 24/08/11 10:46 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>> At present, a number of my machines have scripts that hook into the network 
+>>>> scripts. For example, one to update the bind forwarders from the DNS IPs 
+>>>> returned by pppd when the interface comes up. On another machine, a script 
+>>>> that unloads the wireless broadband driver when the interface goes down (I 
+>>>> think this modem has buggy firmware). Then, there are the existing scripts 
+>>>> shipped in the distribution (e.g. to reload squid).
+>>
+>> Just on this point in particular (as Misc has pretty much covered
+>> everything I would say and more!), the need to do this will likely go
+>> away very soon.
+>>
+>> I don't know the full ins and outs here but AFAIK, there was/are various
+>> uses of dnsmasq in Network Manager to provide caching DNS (which I
+>> presume is the basic need with bind+forwarders).
+> 
+> That's optional, but yes, you can tell to nm to manage dnsmasq or bind
+> to provides caching for dns. Dnsmasq is also used to share the
+> connection.
+> 
+> To enable it, I think you need to set this :
+> 
+> [main]
+> dns=dnsmasq   
+> 
+> ( or bind, even if this is marked experimental in git )
+> 
+> I tested on nm-0.9, my network didn't explose
+
+Cool, but regardless, all of this can and will be removed from NM soon
+enough anyway. The new DNS system backed into nsswitch will be much
+nicer in this regard and nscd will be able to handle all the caching needs.
+
+Not sure about shared connections, but that shouldn't be a problem
+generally as the client can just be told to use the same upstream DNS
+servers AFAIK.
+
+Col
+
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